It is defined as a realization of non-self and emptiness to Buddhists and a state of perfect quietude, freedom, highest happiness according to Indian religions, Nirvana has become a very common word used in conversations today. To the common man, it means freedom from the shackles of reality, leading to happiness – a state of true happiness. This is why a lot of us work hard to achieve it. But how does one achieve a state of Nirvana? Is it really that difficult?

Do we need to endure much obstacles and suffering before experiencing it? Or could it be innately inside us already? Maybe we can achieve Nirvana or at least a form of it by seeking happiness within ourselves. Happiness is a choice and it may seem easy, but for much choosing happiness is actually quite a task. It is usually easier to give up when situations get difficult then focus on the negatives.

Best Quotes on Nirvana

“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.”
― Dave Grohl

“The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Yes, there is a Nirvana; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.”
― Kurt Gobain

“Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- It was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.”
― Jon Fishman

“Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.”
― M. Scott Peck

“Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.”
― Frederick Lenz

When we are upset, it is usually much easier to find fault in others, in the situation and in ourselves, making us even more frustrated. What we forget is that there is another choice, and that is to choose happiness and find that silver lining. Maybe then we can achieve Nirvana or something like it.

Nirvana, by definition, is a state, and it could mean a state of happiness for us. Just like those who are actively searching for Nirvana, based on their faith and their beliefs, let us try and find our own Nirvana by changing the way we think and the way we look at things. We could actively try to look at the bright side of things and find the good in situations, no matter how difficult they may be. Let us always remember that in any situation, there is always a choice and though at times, fighting on and choosing happiness is the harder choice, it is there – all we have to do is choose it.

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All and sundry believes in life after death or the afterlife. Most believers have faith in God. They truly believe that God is eternal. History says that God exists in all activities from creation to death and beyond life. Most human beings have a firm belief on the fact that they are on a cosmic journey, no matter how long or short it is. They are certain of dying and reckon on the fact that they will live a happier life.

History and especially the Bible are based on a fact that there is life after death; which is called as eternal life. The eternal is however not for all but for those who choose to walk in God’s way, accept Him and obey His commandments.

In some traditional teachings, it has been told that life after death possibly called as reincarnation, which implies that beings are responsible for their actions. During this stage, people come back to life as different beings depending on their deeds. A person with good deeds is probably granted with a rebirth as a human. On the contrary, people with bad deeds might have to bear the results by taking birth as an animal.

Here are some of the best quotes on eternity.

“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)”
― Jeaniene Frost

“The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.”
― Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

“We’re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can’t help feeling that that’s what it is.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime.  But all these times and places and occasions are now and here.  God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages.  Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in.  I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.  Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“There is nothing more important than your salvation.”
― Kirk Cameron

“I never was without some religious principles. I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.”
― Assorted Authors

Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do you mean that they shall be for you?”
― Alexander MacLaren

“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live regist’red upon our brazen tombs
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
Th’ endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honor which shall bate his scythe’s keen edge
And make us heirs of all eternity.”
― William Shakespeare

“Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live forever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I was going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live forever.”
― C.S. Lewis

We are all sojourners on this earth. Yes, there is an afterlife and even if you will not have the same body that you have right now, your spirit will leave on.  It has been said that your spirit can rest in peace or it can keep wandering due to some unresolved issues that you might have had.

Whether you want to come back in your afterlife as a nice being or some bad being is all dependent on you. How you behave while you are on earth plays a major part in determining your afterlife.

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Casting aside all things in this false and troubled world
that ensnare those who love them blindly,
give all your love to Him who gave Himself in all
for you to love:
Whose beauty the sun and moon admire, and whose gifts
are abundant and precious and grand without end.

– Saint Clare of Assisi

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-Rumi

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But in the end all things return to the One.

The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One’s perfection.

– Hsu Yun

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– Aldous Huxley

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– Rumi

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– Meister Eckhart

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– From the Bhagavad Gita

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– Lao Tzu

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